James Stuart Tullett (1912-1992)

Journalist and author James Stuart Tullett was born in Warwickshire in 1912 and trained in journalism. He served in the British Army's Palestine Police from 1937 to 1945 then as a press officer in Germany after the end of the Second World War.

Tullett immigrated to New Zealand in 1951 and began his long career as a journalist and author. In 1960 he joined the Taranaki Herald where he served as a reporter, reviewer, columnist and sub-editor.

He published six novels during the 1960s and three nonfiction books, the third of which, The Industrious Heart: A History of New Plymouth, (1981) was commissioned by the New Plymouth City Council for its centennial. The Industrious Heart won a J M Sherrard Award for regional histories.

Stuart Tullett died on 15 June 1992.

Fiction

Tar White (1962)

Yellow Streak (1963)

Red Abbott (1964)

White Pine (1965)

Hunting Black (1966)

Town of Fear (1970)

Non-fiction

The Super Men: Agricultural Aviation in New Zealand - written with Graham Alexander (1967)

Nairn Bus to Baghdad: The Story of Gerald Nairn (1968)

The Story of St John's Church, Omata 1875-1975 (1975)

Egmont National Park Handbook (1980)

The Industrious Heart: A History of New Plymouth (1981)